Patricia McCormick
1) Purple Heart
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With Purple Heart, National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick delivers a haunting tale of war. After awaking in an army hospital, young soldier Matt Duffy struggles to regain his memory of the horrifying incident that led to his traumatic brain injury. But as he begins to question the events of that fateful day, Matt soon discovers the truth is not always what it seems.
2) Sold
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When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls, which helps her survive and eventually escape.
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It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time. He had put his papers in order -- and left a few notes specifically for Hitler's men to see. Two SS agents climbed the stairs and told the boyish-looking Bonhoeffer to come with them. He calmly said good-bye to his parents, put his Bible under his arm, and left. Upstairs there was proof, in his own handwriting, that this...